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NYCEDC intends for the Operator(s) to sell SKUs within each Core Basket Category ("Core Basket SKUs") at prices that are, on average, 30% below retail prices. NYCEDC seeks to collaborate with the Operator to achieve this discount while minimizing the need for NYCEDC's financial support beyond capital fit-out and payment of rent and property taxes. [...] Selling Core Basket SKUs at affordable prices: The Operator(s) will be responsible for selling each Core Basket SKU at an affordable price, which shall be updated on a monthly basis. The Operator(s) will set prices, subject to NYCEDC approval, targeting an average discount of 30% relative to the retail price. Prices may be determined based on available market data, operator input based on existing operations, and/or other observable data points. NYCEDC and the Operator will finalize a proposed pricing methodology and process in any agreements associated with this project. Affordable prices must: • Be available at all hours of operations • Be offered as "sticker prices," rather than as promotional prices.
Film director Rian Johnson has lifted the lid on a secret in the world of product placement – Apple will not allow its kit to be used by a villainous character on screen. “Apple, they let you use iPhones in movies, but – and this is very pivotal – if you’re ever watching a mystery movie, bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera,” Johnson, whose credits include Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper and Knives Out, revealed in a video recorded for Vanity Fair. Johnson let the secret slip as he took viewers through an anatomy of a scene in Knives Out, a whodunnit with an ensemble cast including Daniel Craig, Toni Collette and Jamie Lee Curtis. In the pivotal scene, the will reading following the murder of a rich novelist played by Christopher Plummer, Lee Curtis’s character, Linda Drysdale, is seen holding an iPhone – prompting Johnson to give away the industry secret. “Every single film-maker who has a bad guy in their movie that’s supposed to be a secret wants to murder me right now,” Johnson added.
But the most frequent problem with air conditioning is thermal shock. This occurs when the body is abruptly switched from very hot air to very cold air. For example, when you set your car's air conditioning to 18°C ​​when just seconds before you were outside in 35°C heat. As a result, the body experiences astressThis can lead to headaches or a stiff neck due to a "chill." Therefore, it is recommended to limit the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors to 4 to 5°C, and not to use air conditioning when it is below 26°C outside. Air conditioning can make you sick if it is poorly maintained. When poorly maintained, air conditioning systems can cause health problems. Indeed, mold,bacteria, of theallergensand dust can accumulate there and therefore be released into the air when the air conditioning is running.
De son côté, Jean-Luc Mélenchon a ainsi mis en garde contre une généralisation de la climatisation : "Allez mettre de la 'clim' partout, vous allez voir le résultat. Moi je ne mets pas mon gosse ou ma petite fille ou mon arrière-petite-fille là où il y a de la clim du matin au soir !". Le responsable insoumis plaide ensuite pour des alternatives techniques face aux vagues de chaleur. "On sait faire des bâtiments qui résistent à la chaleur. Il y a des techniques, (...) il y a 1000 manières d'isoler un bâtiment", affirme-t-il. "Ce qui est sûr, c'est il y a deux choses à ne pas faire : laisser les choses en l'état et deuxièmement, aggraver le mal en croyant soulager", ajoute-t-il. /// For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon warned against a widespread adoption of air conditioning: "Go ahead and put 'AC' everywhere, you'll see the result. As for me, I don't put my kid or my granddaughter or my great-granddaughter where there's air conditioning from morning to night!" The France Insoumise leader then advocates for technical alternatives in the face of heat waves. "We know how to make buildings that resist heat. There are techniques, (...) there are 1,000 ways to insulate a building," he asserts. "What's certain is that there are two things not to do: leave things as they are, and secondly, make the problem worse while thinking you're relieving it," he adds.
Table showing three-way preference flows in the March 2026 South Australia election for eliminated One Nation, Liberal, and Greens candidates. ONP preferences went 67% to Libs, 18% to Labor, 16% to Greens. Lib preferences went 53% to ONP, 28% to Labor, 19% to Greens. Greens preferences went 79% to Labor, 12% to Libs, 9% to ONP.
Chart showing share of electricity generation in Australia by source since 2000. Coal started at 80% and goes down to ~50% by 2025. In 2025 natural gas is ~25%, with the last 25% being comprised of renewables.
Doug Ford, flanked by Caroline Mulroney and Stephen Lecce, all wearing “Ontario PC” branded pride flag T-shirts. It’s the progress version of the flag, with the inset of the trans flag and black and brown stripes.
The iPhone maker is additionally preparing an upgraded version of Shortcuts, its app for creating time-savers, such as for sharing calendar availability or summarizing a PDF, or automations like opening the garage door and turning on lights when arriving home. The version now in testing lets users create shortcuts simply by describing what they want them to do. Currently, users need to manually build shortcuts within the app or download them from Apple’s gallery. In the updated app, users are presented with a prompt asking, “What do you want your shortcut to do?” along with a text field to describe the request. The system then automatically builds and installs the shortcut on the device.
Chart showing "three-cornered" contests by Australian election. In the 80s 63-72 seats were three-cornered, in the 1990s 17-32, and the range from 2004-2019 is 9-11.
Two matrices, showing how often GPT 5.5 successfully multiplied large numbers together. Each cell represents digits of lenghts n and m, non-symmetrical, for lengths 1 to 20, and seven attempts for each n x m pair. On medium reasoning, it very near aced it - 15 errors on 2,800 attempts. On “none” reasoning, the model does fairly well at multiplying numbers of any length with 1 and 2 digit numbers, but consistently fails (0/7 correct attempts) for numbers of 4 digits and higher.
Gallup poll showing growth in “ever used” Ozempic/Wegovy/Saxenda growing from 6% in Q1 2024 to 12% in Q3 2025 among US adults.
Screenshot of a Jeopardy! stats website. Everything is dark shades of blue roundrects over a dark blue background.
Top free apps on iPhone. ChatGPT is number 1, Claude number 3, Gemini number 4, MetaAI number 5.
3:00 Fireside Chat with Jay Bhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health Facilitator - Emily Oster, JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor of Economics, Brown University, Founder and CEO of ParentData
Chart showing inflation in the EU, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, 2021-present. Inflation peaks higher in Hungary, but all those countries experience higher inflation than the EU as a whole.
Guardian review But the novel is also rich in smaller characters, from the lazy Machiavellian Stefano to hardworking Vittorio, whose otherworldly twin brother Emmanuele is prone to speaking in tongues and dressing up in ragtag begged-and-borrowed uniforms[…]. Because this is most significantly a song of love to a country of contradictions, battered, war-torn, divided, misguided and miraculous: an Italy where life is costume and the performance of art, and where circuses spring up on wasteland. The Italy that produced both Mussolini and Fellini, fascists and futurists and communists; where “beauty is always imperilled” and “genius grows like a weed”. NYT review The novel is also rich in secondary characters, from the lazy, Machiavellian Stefano to Mimo’s childhood friend and fellow craftsman Vittorio and Vittorio’s otherworldly twin, Emanuele, who speaks in tongues and dresses in scavenged uniforms. Together they populate what is ultimately a love song to a country of contradictions: battered, divided, misguided and miraculous. This is an Italy where life is performance, where circuses rise on wasteland, where beauty is perpetually imperiled and genius proliferates unchecked.
Majority report for new boundaries in the Calgary area. A few ridings extend west, but the city is mostly intact.
Kamala Harris, sternly: “Do not come. Do not come.” Cut to DJT: “I’m gonna come”. The crowd cheers for seven seconds. DJT moans into the microphone.
But the facial breadth of “regulate” places in stark relief what the term is not usually thought to include: taxation. The U. S. Code is replete with statutes granting the Executive the authority to “regulate” someone or something. Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax.
Using new data from the Gallup Workforce Panel, we document a persistent partisan gap in self-reported AI use at work: Democrats are consistently more likely than Republicans to report frequent use. In 2025:Q4, for example, 27.8% of Democrats report using AI weekly or daily, compared with 22.5% of Republicans. Democrats also report deeper task-level integration, using AI in 16% more work activities than Republicans. Consistent with this, Democrats are employed in occupations with higher predicted AI exposure based on task-content measures and report larger perceived differences in AI-related job displacement risk. However, in regression models the partisan gap in AI use disappears once we control for education, industry, and occupation, indicating that observed differences primarily reflect compositional variation rather than political affiliation per se. (The Politics of AI, Nicholas Bloom and Christor Makridis)
Pictures of both sides of a BC driver’s license and services card. The back has a small bear icon, and contains a health number.
Screenshot from CBC website: McDonald said Van Rootselaar identified as female but was assigned male at birth. McDonald said she began to transition about six years ago. The officer said police have not found any note yet from VanRootselaar but it's possible one was written.
Philby Bear @philbybear.bsky.social, today: "Speaking as an outsider who has had little to no experience with Stancil, who only knows him as this meme'd figure despised by leftist social media, I am a little hesitant to form an opinion without having more specific data on hand." Three weeks ago: "Stancil did himself no favours by being his usual smug-ass self, perhaps even deliberately leaning into this misread to egg people further on, because that man is addicted to petty online squabbles, to vitriol and spite. He is an emotional masochist."
Grok safety instructions. They include: ### Key Guidelines for Responding to Queries: - **Assume good intent** and don't make worst-case assumptions without evidence: - "teenage" or "girl" does not necessarily imply underage
Screenshot of reddit post. It has 438 net upvotes, 41 comments. "Quick PSA Take it or leave it, I feel compelled to gently remind everyone that Hudson and Connor are realllllly young. They are like 24, so I'd like to remind us all to be chill, enjoy the show, support, etc, but I think some could dial in the feral thirsting (not so much on reddit as like insta and tiktok, but I'm hoping some of those people see this here). If you're reading this like "24 isn't young" then you're either young yourself or exactly who this message is intended for. Please be mindful of what you're commenting on their social medias. Let's be better than those who are creepy, parasocial, and can't read a room/recognize when someone is uncomfortable with unwanted sexual overtures."
In the unlikely event Fetterman determined he could not campaign, he would have to voluntarily remove himself from the ballot to be replaced. Then it would be up to the full Democratic state committee to determine who would replace him.
Poll showing that 54% of UCP supporters support Alberta separation, and only 39% support remaining in Canada. 2% of NDP voters support separation, and 98% support remaining.
Screenshot from Nintendo Life article reading: One such story involves the N64's Expansion Pak, a little device used to double the console's RAM from 4MB to 8MB. The tale goes that a game-breaking, memory-related bug occurred in the 4MB version and forced Nintendo to ship the game bundled with the Expansion Pak. That's a costly bug, and we certainly wouldn’t have wanted to be the one to deliver the news to notoriously fiery then-President of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi back at Nintendo HQ. That story has become more-or-less accepted fact, although Stevenson believes the truth is more complicated. "This one’s a myth. The decision to use the Expansion Pak happened a long time before the game shipped, in fact we were called in by management and told that we were going to use the Expansion Pak and that we needed to do find ways to do stuff in the game that justified its use and made it a selling point. I think the bug story somehow got amalgamated into the Expansion Pak use and became urban myth." "There was a game-breaking bug right at the end of development that we were struggling with," he clarifies, "but the Expansion Pak wasn’t introduced to deal with this and wasn’t the solution to the problem. My memory is that, like all consoles, the hardware is constantly revised over its lifetime to take advantage of ongoing improvements in technology and manufacture methods to essentially make the manufacture more cost effective and eventually profitable. I think there we’re something like 3 different revisions of the internal hardware by this point and the bug was unique to only one of these versions. We did eventually find it and fix it, but very late in the day."
White male comedian saying: "Straight guys, we get perks. Like, we don't have dietary restrictions. A lot of women and queer folks have 'celiac', 'lactose intolerance', 'oil sensitivities'."
Tweets from John Bresnahan, @bresreports: An angry Bernie Sanders won’t drop his support for Graham Platner despite a Nazi tattoo on his chest 2/ Sanders said Platner “as a young man” went thru some really difficult experiences” in Iraq and Afghanistan. 3/ Sanders: “I personally think he is an excellent candidate and will support him, and I look forward to him becoming the next senator from Maine.” 4/ When pressed on Platner’s Nazi tattoo, Sanders lashed out at the “corrupt campaign finance system” adding “We don’t have enough candidates in this country that will take on the powers that be and fight for the working class.”
A graph charting "cumulative food price index" for OECD countries from 2015-2025, normalised to 100 for Q1 2025. For most countries, the 2025 price index ends up between 105 and 110.
Fig. 3 in Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator by Imbens/Kalyanaraman. x axis is different bandwidth widths for a regression discontinuity regression, from 0 to 0.5. y axis is the coefficient for the outcome effect for each of those different bandwidths. Outcomes are plotted as a solid line chart, with dotted lines showing the confidence interval.
Image of a homophobic slug looking unimpressed, with a banner of white text on red background reading "LIVE SLUG REACTION"
Screenshot from church website showing bio for the dog, Bella. Top left shows music player, Bella Ciao performed by the Red Army Choir. Left shows image of Bella, a white husky. Banner has "Bella" repeating in a wave, with the tile of the page being "Ciao!"
FEC form showing Trump donation by Tyler Robinson at 83 N Lee Ln, St George, UT.
Tweet screenshot from the source of the table saying: "voter registration data is just going to have “modeled” ethnicity since it isn’t tracked. it’s generally not great but i will play around with it"
Also real talk, there's a better chance of ecologically responsible, labor-respecting synthetic cocaine being produced in labs than for coffee beans or chocolate. Sorry, nerds. The future *might* have ethical gram bags but it *definitely* won't have ethical lattes
UK ninja sword ban begins as 1,000 bladed weapons surrendered in national amnesty From 1 August, it is now illegal to own, sell or import ninja swords in England and Wales, with possession in public carrying up to four years in prison. More than 1,000 weapons have been surrendered under a UK government amnesty aimed at tackling the country's worsening knife crime crisis as a ban on ninja swords comes into force, the Home Office said on Friday.
New guidance from the Passport Office: “In the past it was ok to use your Doctor/GP to countersign your application. Due to high demand and complaints received from medical professionals you are now not able to use your registered doctor as a counter signatory (however if you have a friend or colleague who is a doctor this is still permitted).”
Chart of US recorded music revenues from the RIAA, adjusted for inflation, broken down by format. Revenues peak in 1999 north of 25 billion, almost all in CD sales. They precipitously decline as CD sales disappear and reach a bottom of 9 billion in 2014. Starting in 2015, streaming starts picking up steam, and revenues rebound to 17 billion in 2021, where they remain in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Front page of La Presse+, showing four stories in a grid.
Let’s start with the big news, Leader Jeffries, out of your hometown. Mamdani won a big victory. Have you endorsed him yet? REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: I have not. We had a conversation on Wednesday morning where I congratulated him on the campaign that he ran, a campaign that clearly was relentlessly focused on the high cost of living in New York City and the economy. He out-worked, he out-communicated, and he out-organized the opposition. And that’s clearly why he was successful. KARL: So, what’s holding you back from endorsing him right now? JEFFRIES: Well, we don’t really know each other well. Our districts don’t overlap. I have never had a substantive conversation with him. And so, that’s the next step in terms of this process, to be able to sit down, which we agreed to do, in central Brooklyn, discuss his vision for moving the city forward and addressing the issues that are important to the communities that I represent. A very diverse district that I represent in Brooklyn, including many African Americans, many Jewish Americans, many Caribbean Americans who are dealing with a lot of challenges in the city and want to make sure that the next mayor of the city of New York, whoever that may be, is prepared to tackle them.
Chart of Belgian exports in 2023. Largest categories are Refined Petroleum and Petroleum Gas, at 34.9B and 31.9B.
C'est moi ou il y a une campagne de propagande pro-clim en ce moment ? Sans rentrer dans le "débat" de si c'est bien ou non de démocratiser la clim en France, j'ai l'impression de voir 5 posts par jour sur r/France, r/écologie, r/opinionnonpopulaire ayant grosso modo pour titre "change my mind on est trop cons d'être anticlim en France". Et même des articles du même style dans différents médias traditionnels comme Le Point. Vous me direz c'est juste qu'il a fait chaud donc normal que les gens parlent de clim, mais bon c'est pas non plus ma canicule du siècle, ça a duré quelques jours seulement, et j'ai pas l'impression d'avoir vu ça lors des précédentes canicules?
Tweet from Marine Tondelier, French Greens leader, quote-tweeting Marine Le Pen’s AC proposal and saying: La France : subit une canicule historique. Le programme écologique de Marine Le Pen : acheter des climatiseurs.
LOI portant modification de l'heure légale française, pour la mettre en concordance avec le système universel des fuseaux horaires. Le Sénat et la Chambre des députés ont adopté, Le Président de la République promulgue la loi dont la teneur suit : Article unique. - L'heure légale en France et en Algérie est l'heure, temps moyen de Paris, retardée de neuf minutes vingt et une secondes. La présente loi, délibérée et adoptée par le Sénat et par la Chambre des députés, sera exécutée comme loi de l'Etat. Fait à Paris, le 9 mars 1911.
Screenshot of poll from Mar 19-21 2010 showing 39% approval, 59% disapproval of the ACA.
THUNE says that he thinks the @SenRickScott FMAP amendment is “really good policy” and “a lot of us are gonna be supporting it.” I asked him about the House’s position, which is FMAP changes shouldn’t be on the table. “I don’t know how Republicans couldn't be in favor of what he's trying to get done here. So we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.” The amendment phases out the 90% match for Medicaid expansion population under Obamacare.
Screenshot of the Chipotle website showing 6 locations in Alberta, 19 in BC, and 33 in Ontario.
Map of the world showing distribution of lightning strikes. Europe and Russia are noticeably less lightning-impacted than the rest of the world.
However, Star Wars fans may note that this speech diverges somewhat from the canon that was established in the animated series Rebels. In season 3 episode "Secret Cargo," Mon makes a speech broadcast across the galaxy from within a ship as she is transported to Yavin by Gold Squadron. Andor creator Tony Gilroy explains that he and writer Dan Gilroy felt constrained by having to adhere to the speech she delivers there (and weren't all that interested in parroting someone else's writing). "We are hijacking canon," Tony Gilroy admits. "In canon, she's rescued by the Gold Squadron and the speech that they gave in the cartoon, which was a canonical show, [is on that ship]. And Danny's like, 'Do I have to stick to this f--ing speech?'"
Table of financial results from DeCA, showing loses on cost of goods of 108, 202, and 206 million in FY2023-2025, against revenues of ~5 billion
Methodology: In collaboration with The Upshot — a department at The Times focused on data and analytical journalism — we sent ballots to hundreds of directors, actors, cinematographers and others in and around the film industry, asking them to submit their picks for the best films of the 21st century. (We allowed respondents to submit up to 10; some submitted fewer.) The only rules: They had to be feature-length movies released in the United States on or after Jan. 1, 2000. After casting their ballots, voters were given the option to pick which of two randomly selected films was better in a series of matchups. We combined data from these prompts with the vote tallies to create the list of top 100 movies.
Tweets from 2023 using the term “commie corridor”
AO3 screenshot showing “8 works in Andrew Cuomo/Chris Cuomo”